Contributors
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Nik Brown is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit at the University of York UK. He has published widely on the sociology of the biosciences with books including New Medical Technologies and Society (with Andrew Webster, Polity Press, 2004) and Contested Futures: a sociology of prospective techno-science (edited with Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster, Ashgate, 2000).
Hans Harbers is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research concerns the many interfaces between knowledge, power and morality. Recently he published Inside the Politics of Technology (Amsterdam University Press, 2005).
Marli Huijer is Senior-researcher at the University of Groningen, Department of Philosophy, and Associate Professor at The Hague University for Professional Education. She specializes in philosophy, time and biomedical practices. She is author of De Kunst Gewoon te Leven. Aids en de Bestaansesthetiek van Foucault (The Daily Art of Living. Aids and Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence. Boom Publishers, 1996) and Factor XX. Vrouwen, Eicellen en Genen (Factor XX. Women, Egg Cells and Genes, Boom Publishers, 2004-with K. Horstman). She is currently working on a volume on time and genomics (with H. Harbers). [End Page 435]
Mike Michael is Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology and Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. His interests include public understanding of science, everyday life and science and technology, and biotechnological and biomedical innovation and culture. His most recent publications include Technoscience and Everyday Life (Open University Press, 2006) and (with Lynda Birke and Arnie Arluke) The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People (Purdue University Press. 2007).
Peter Peters is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. He has published on time, mobility and travel in technological cultures. His research is concerned with the debates on public problems related to mobility and the assessment of innovations that are suggested to solve these problems. Among his recent publications is Time, Innovation and Mobilities (Routledge, 2006).
Steven Wainwright is Professor of Sociology of Medicine, Science & the Arts, and Co-Director of the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King's College London. His research focuses on three areas: the connections between Medical Sociology and Science Studies (especially new medical technologies); Medical Humanities; and the Sociology of the Body. He is currently an ESRC Research Fellow, working on an ethnography of embryonic stem cell research. He is an Editor of the leading Sociology journal published in the UK: Sociology of Health & Illness.
Clare Williams is Professor of Social Science of Biomedicine and Co-Director of the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King's College London. Her research focuses on the clinical, ethical and social implications of innovative health technologies, particularly from the perspective of health care practitioners and scientists. She currently holds two grants from the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme: on the experiences of staff working in PGD; and on ethical frameworks of embryo donation. She is the UK member of the European Science Foundation Committee which awards EU Framework networking grants. [End Page 436]
